rooster59 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 NBTC to auction 95 ‘auspicious’ phone numbers By The Nation The Office of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) will auction off 95 “auspicious” phone numbers later this month, hoping to raise more than Bt80 million. Takorn Tantasith, NBTC secretary general, told a press conference at the Siam Paragon shopping mall that the auction will be held on November 26. It will be the third phone number auction this year, but it will be different from the two first auctions. Takorn said that the first two auctions were aimed at selling phone numbers that featured the same digits. The new auction will feature numbers with the same digits and numbers that have been selected and certified as auspicious by a guru on number-based fortune telling. Takorn said the 95 phone numbers have been selected from 2,000 numbers by the guru, Kongthanatkul Setthisathaporn. And the 2,000 phone numbers were selectedby NBTC from 90 million numbers. “This is a new dimension of phone number auction by the NBTC,” Takorn said. The 95 numbers are called “beautiful numbers that are auspicious and will make you rich”, Takorn added. He said 13 out of the 95 phone numbers will feature the same digit seven times and their bidding price will start at Bt3 million each. There will also be 77 numbers with six of the same digits and their starting price will be Bt500,000. He said there will also five numbers that feature two sets of four same digits and their starting bidding price is Bt500,000. The bidding will be carried out via a web-based application inside the auditorium on the second floor of the NBTC office. The auction will start at 09:09am. He said the proceeds after expenses will be sent to the Finance Ministry, and the NBTC Office hopes to raise more than Bt80 million. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30330825 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-11-05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daoyai Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 keeping the "cult" in culture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadGeordie Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 3 hours ago, daoyai said: keeping the "cult" in culture I was actually thinking about part of a town in Lincolnshire. Scunthorpe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SABloke Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 The 95 numbers are called “beautiful numbers that are auspicious and will make you rich”, Takorn added. People that can afford a 3 million baht phone number are already rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaorop Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 "A guru on numbers based fortune telling." What a bargoon 3 for 1. A Guru. Numbers. Fortune teĺling. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raybangkok Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 About 10years ago before phone number auctions started a very cool nu number was on sale in MBK for 250,,000 Baht. The number was 0123456789 very easy to remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freed1948 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Just how many "auspicious " phone numbers are there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonah Tenner Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 People should not believe in superstition. It brings bad luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonah Tenner Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 5 hours ago, Freed1948 said: Just how many "auspicious " phone numbers are there? How many do you need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehowden Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 " numbers that have been selected and certified as auspicious by a guru on number-based fortune telling. " Sums up the Thai mentality so nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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